City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages Maskarinec Maya
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages Maskarinec Maya It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages.…
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City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages Maskarinec Maya
It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. How then, asks Maya Maskarinec, did this exhausted city, with limited Christian presence, transform over the course of the sixth through ninth centuries into a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of sanctity?Conventional narratives explain the rise of Christian Rome as resulting from an increasingly powerful papacy. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was gradually depleted physically, economically, and politically.
During the early Middle Ages, the city imported dozens of saints and their legends, naturalized them, and physically In City of Saints, Maskarinec looks outward, to examine how Rome interacted with the wider Mediterranean world in the Byzantine period.
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